Word: lunging
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...addition to having a brother who is living with skin cancer, Delaney-Smith has lost both of her parents to the disease. Her father passed away from lung cancer when she was five, and her mother died of bone marrow cancer...
...Lloyd's syndicates--claiming they were the victims of one of the great swindles of the 20th century. As TIME recounted in a special report last February, the Names said they were fraudulently misled about huge potential liabilities resulting from compensation paid to American workers afflicted by asbestosis and lung cancer. They further alleged that the Lloyd's hierarchy was party to the fraud because it knew of the looming problems but allowed its syndicates to under-reserve for the resulting losses--thus helping conceal the true state of affairs from the recruits needed to fund a bailout...
...virus can be passed from one person to another a number of ways--primarily through direct contact. Scientists have recently isolated Ebola viruses from the sweat, blood, saliva and lung tissue of those sorry individuals autopsied during the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Zaire. That epidemic was brought under control through a strategy that sought to limit the skin-to-skin contacts between infected individuals and their healthy, living caretakers...
There was one surprise from the North American study. Contrary to expectations, children on inhaled steroids did not fare better than the control group in tests that measure lung capacity. Researchers speculate that there was already some permanent damage that the steroids could not counteract, as study subjects had been found to have asthma an average of five years before they started treatment. Some experts believe that for optimal results, steroid therapy should begin within two or three years of the initial symptoms. If that's the case, doctors may need to give inhaled steroids to children as young...
...International Olympics Committee faces questions of fascinating and far more complex implication: Forget drugs. Entire Olympic teams might be bio-engineered and compete on their margins of mechanical perfection, like computer-designed Grand Prix cars and racing yachts. Swimmers, for example, engineered with enormous webbed feet and fabulous lung capacity. The new-model C. J. Hunter should be able to put the shot from Sydney to Perth...